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4 1 No 40 AUSTIN MINN RIDAY AUGUST 18 1857 12 Pages ww 'A Rights Bill Closer Associatioho 'ftA ft' ft SiSw1 "Wedther MflyDelay 'I questions slsiS for 56 Years Dies at Home lilis tA VM i I A I Dresses were hung from the awnings at one i The Weather 1957 City Traffic 4 A 5 A (D Ark) the New Ex Teamsters Boss Links Beck to raud ft ov la cl Air orce Doctor in Strato Ca psu le Ex Convict Confesses Murder of Carl Giere was confident that if anyone had a chance to come out of this alive Mrs romberg told of living on berries and drinking water from the Artichoke She also saw nu merous bears scared of them at she reported There were lots of them and some would come up real dose to me Then turn and go Mrs romberg said she slept fitfully at Bight on a rock in a answer to all the anxieties LUTHERANS (Continued on Page 11) A block long ballon containing an Air orce space doctor who will be suspended in an alumin um capsule below probably will take off Saturday or Sunday and will be into outer space by Glenn Hovland Austin airport manager Hovlanjl was in Minneapolis comb which' had fallen from pocket Hardie said after this first as sault he dragged Giere into a corn field nearby' when a second scuffle took place It is believed the fatal blow was struck at this Hardie said he left the body lying in the corn field and drove home He threw the (leath wea pon somewhere alongside the road Investigators are still search ing for it Cunningham and Bennyhoff did find a pair of bloody trousers and a jacket in a wooded area which were traced to Hardie Thursday getting instruments on his Navion plane checked for tra cing tty balloon The balloon will be launched in northern Minne sota and in the side capsule will be Maj David Simons Simons will attempt to stay at 100000 or 102000 feet 19 miles up for at least 24 hours which would be a higb altitude and ip durance record for a manned bal loon 1 1957 4C5 75 None farm 3H miles southwest of By ron when the argument started Hardie told Cunningham? and Bennyhoff that Giere had criti cised his drinking Hardie said be grabbed awrencb and hRfte older man on the head in a scuffle about rpdwv IN THE BIG i tITtiiDoro thy Brown 16 year old "na ture girl" whose home is a cabin near poses wide eyed on ar riving by train at Pennsyl vania Station in New York today from Charlotte It was her second train ride the firstwasa 16 mile tripfrom Statesville to Moores ville when she was a child (AP Photofax) clearing Otherwise she just kept and Walking hoping find my way prayed all the prayers and sang all the hymns I said the grey haired grandmother I did it in Swedish i' Mrs romberg was found by a railroad section crew about a mile from the William Larson farm when she is employed as a house keeper The men took her to Cul ver community 30 miles northeast of Duluth and she was later brought here by ambulance Gus Butzke 90 died Thursday night at his home 40 Water While his health and eyesight had been failing it was not until Aug 1 that Butzke retired as a tailor At that time he was the subject of a column long article in the Austin Daily Herald which gave the details of his long and busy life that included 56 years work here as a tailor life story was a re futation of the popular belief that hard work and long hours mean a short life While in the past 10 years Butzke had been obliged to it a little prior to that he waf known to work until 2 am Mrs Butzke who died in 1954 had a long record of service in Red Cross work ft Butzke born fn what is now the Russian zone of Germany served his tailoring apprenticeship la Germany and then was drafted for three years of service in the German army where "be became company tailor Later he worked in Hamburg and pother cities until Aug 18 1891 he left for LaCrosse Wis Since that was a depression time Butzke did not find America land fit milk and hooey" but be (fl Martin Lacey onetime New York Team sters boss charged today that Teamster President Dave office cooperated in the fraud and deception by which Lacey said he was unseated i Lacey told the Senate Investigating Committee he wrote but never got any answer the chartering of sev en Teamsters locals The locals helped vote Lacey out of the presidency of the New York Joint Teamster Council in 1956 and put in John O'Rourke backed by "Midwest Teamsters of feueraiioa tfjRPd tuthenms around 'the world to face up real istically' and boldly to world prob lems including possibility of universal Bishop Hanns Lilje Hannover Germany told the federation that Internationale of technologi cal civilization has arisen from which no part of the world is do noKieek to escape from the world by retiring into cells of piety but rather seek to orient ourselves toward Christ who Is the Confession by an ex convict that he killed Carl Giere has apparent ly solved the mystery murder Lester Hardie 29 sighed a statement Thursday he killejGiere wifir a monkey wre nch Saturday night after an aTgu heartbeat If something goes wrong at 100000 feet or so the capsule can be released fronflnsidq Navion The capsule would drop to 30 000 feet through use of a cargo parachute Hovland told the pilots At 300000 feet the capsule would break open and Maj Simons would drop' the rest of the way with a regular standard parachute Another transport plane a 47 containing scientists will also trace and make observations In addition ground crew tracing will be The capsul containing Simons is eight feet high and three feet wide He will monitor high at mosphere and cosmic ray experi ments Simons is chief of the space biology branch of Air aero medical field laboratory and the main purpose of the manned ballon flight will be to test physt cal reactions at that altitude7 7 Hovland will trace the balloon from northern Minnesota: across North Dakota and into Montana where it is expected to land Hovland has been tracing bal loons for five years' for Winzen Research Inc Minneapolis under contract with the Air orce Single 7c A 1 ataong the worlds Lutheran lurches were reported today at the first business session of the Lutheran World third assembly is a closer bond of fel lowship anJ understanding among our churches than at any previous time in Dr Carl Lund Quist executive secretary of the federation told delegates repre seating some 50 million Lutherans Cites Reasons Closer association has been ach ieved he said partly through ex change or cnurcn leaders scholar ships conferences and visitations by church staff officers His report covered five years of meetings by executive committee It cited these other ma jor developments in Lutheran thought and activity: Church leaders pastors and con gregations zi are becoming more keenly aware of the and necessity of a clean proclamation of the Gospeland qareful teach ing of the Christian Unity Urged The federation is actively couraging its member churches to take part In the movement to ward a world wide fellowship of churches The federation has the lesson of contributing 150 million dollars through its members churches since 1945 to meet spiritual and physical needs The report also proposed setting up a research institute Roman rftthnlif thnlncnr nsirtlv in laid to Portly cloudy end continusd fodoy Saturday low to LUTHERAN PROCESSION Bishop Ordass second from right) Hun gary follqvjed candle bearers Thursday night in the Lutheran World ederation's processidn'af'frdm Central Lutheran Church to the Minneapolis Auditorium where he addressed the third annual assembly With the Hungarian Bishop Is Dr Edgar Brown Jjr (right) director of the department of worship who led the new Lutheran liturgical service and The Rev Ephraim Amos (on Ordass' right) Tanganyika Africa (AP Photofax) 'AOviaur'0iianed mx ije st 9 un today that weather Condi 1 tions may prevent the takeoff' If the ballon' take off Hovland probably will fly back Austin until he's called again for the flight Takeoff time has been kept a secret PLAIN CLOTHES (LINE) RACKS ready to wear store as the manager joined Austin merchants in ridiculous merchan dislng techniques Shoppers rummaged through the sidewalk counters and picked clothes off th ewnings "h's crazy" one shopper said boss Hames Hoffa Lacey blocked elec tion temporarily in court proceed ings but ultimately bowed out now titular New York City Teamsters head took the ifth Amendment In refusing to answer committee Thursday Chairman McClellan said Leonard Geiger York recording secre tary is on the and be found to be served with a subpoena 2 Robert Kennedy committee counsel said investigators talked with Geiger a month aco but now ban'f lofatg hinv Lu: THISTED Denmark Wr Krls tine Bro 67 walked up the aisle today with the man she had been engaged to marry for the last 38 years 2 Kristine and rederickVilhelm Wachs fell in love in 1919 The parents told the 29 yearold girl that century old traditions of the Bro family said a daughter who had no sister or brother could never walk out on her parents duty is to stay at your home as long as one of us live they told her So Kristine stayed home red erik left town and went to Copen hagen Ten years ago father died Three years ago her mother followed thim Kristine went to Senate Group OKs oreign Aid Chief WASHINGTON' President new foreign aid chief won Senate committee ap proval today In comment on his new job he said he has set sail on any venture with so many storm signals Jgmes Smith Jr 47 year old Colorado rancher and former avi ation consultant made this obser vation to the Senate oreign Rela tions Committee which 'approved his nomination to be director of the International Cooperation Ad ministration It was a reference to the strug gle in Congress over the amount of money to be on aid to US friends and allies abroad VZ Bennyhoff State Crime Bur eau agent took Hardie into cus tody Jate Wednesday when a far mer fold offiers' he had seen the suspect near the slaying scene after the murder Met at Dance Hardie said he first met the 69 year old Giere a dance Saturday night in the Union Hall in Roch ester After the dance bought both men steak dinners at a restaurant next door to the office This was about 1 am Sunday The two men started home to gether in Hardie's car They got as far as the David Twiete DULUTH Minn (B never go picking berries in the woods That was the resolve' tody Mrs Anna romberg 73 was rescued Thursday after haying been lost in the wilderness for three days was the com meat of her doctor Dr Dan Gol dish an examination showed that she was in good condition except for numerous mosquito bites existing foreign aid funds until Congress can wind tip ths present' a session at the end of next week I In the teeth of a third EisenhoW er warning that the cutiTwbuld tamper with America's national interests the House overrode 'all moves to boost funds in ths com mittee approved bill The yote for final passage Was" 252 130 Eftenhower "jot a glimmer of hope from Sen HuipphreyJ' (D Minn) an nounced he believes the House cut far too deeply Humphrey said tbs new appropriations should not fall below three 'billion dollars Senate Hearing BuH the measure still aced scrutiny a Senate Appropria tidnr jrith station ibr toughness 1 fcfeign aid' Chairman Hayden (D Arix) said that committee would hold a final hearing on the bill Monday and start voting soon thereafter" Even if the Senate voted for the full 33367000000 allowed by the authorization law aetting aid ceil ingsfor the year Eisen AIDf Continued on Page ID JO Arrested in Mill Cify Dfug Raias MINNEAPOLIS ederal narcotics' agents armed with in formation gained by an out of town udercover agent conducted a series of raids here Thursday and' arrested 10 persons for il legal drug traffic Belk district narcotics bureau supervisor here and two of his agents led the raids as sisted by seven other federal offi cers and a dozen policemen Wedding Bells Ring After 38 Year Wait Saturttav? low tAnUk outlook change Si House DemActi ly hate been working ance 05 the bill with its jury trial provision limited to con tempt cases growing out of cdiirt action on voting rights The strategy conference sched uled this morning between GOP House Leader Martin and the four Republican member of the Hous Rules Committee was canceled without immediate ex planation i 4itt V' GUS BUTZKE found work at LaCrosse "and in 1894 married The Butzkes moved to Austin in 1901 and that ended their moving if days They had no children Butzke made suits for Jay Hor mel the Banfields and many oth ers of their stations in Butzke told a Herald re BUTZKE DIES 7P 776sf 8 PM 74 9 10 HP 11PM 69 No More Berry Picking Says Woman 73 Rescued in Woods BUSINESS ON THE SIDEWALK! RIDICULOUS! Ridiculous Day that is This downtown scene was typ ical oftthe sidewalk bargajD oyptecssetuyp by Justin ft Zz rhrchants Wnoadthif their ridiculous mercharvlislng may seemcrazyto some urthe'sh'dfipers rfked it the business districts have been jammed with custo mere buying from costumed clerks making change from carpenters' aprons Agreement Hinted on weatWm Wi Official Herald Weather Site Ref ire Stetloaztb'KV ftTfi Readings at 8:30 today '64 'Low previous 24 hours 61 High previous 24 hours 83 5 General Weather Gear 1 Hourly temperatures takes at Herald Building THURSDAY 1 79 2 79 3 80 4 80 5 79 6 78 RIDAY 67 j7A 6 67 '8 A "I 67 66 j'9 A TO 66 IQ A IL 74 '74 land a cordial goodby while pho tographenr pictured them to gether ft This was an unusual gesture for the President to make to a break fast visitor It appeared to cod atltute a follow up to three special pleas already made this week for foreign aid money ft Knowland frequently has left conferences enth the President without seeing reporters Special Session The senator said there was rid discussion today of calling a special seiasion Of Con gress in the fall aa he has said he may do if the foreign aid funds voted at this time are inadequate' Knowland said he' thought fa 4 special mmImv cU would depend on world conditions st the I that is that the President might Republicans in House Appear ft Ready to Retreat WASHINGTON (fl Rep Allen of minds top Republican on the House Rules 'Committee aid to day that difference blocking Hous action on civil right ap to have been pretty well ironed 'out As House Republicans appeared ready to stage a strategic retreat from their all or nothing stand for i t' civil rights program Allen told report ers: think the Rule Committee will meet next Monday or Tues day (to act on the bill) I think thlnga have been pretty well ironed out and I think we will adjourn with a bill" statement strengthened report that leader were' nearing an agreement to bring the stale mated bill to the floor of the House for a votelate next week The Rule Committee' ihur far ha been blocking'action' But with' the four Republican member and four Northern Democrat voting together as a majority of the 12 toember committee the bill could be sent to the floor Just before Allen talked with newsmen Republican civil rights leader in the House put off a strategy conference Th session set fqr mldmprn ing was called off with a tentative understanding that it might be re scheduled for this afternoon The unconfirmed report of a tentative understanding cams as House Republicans appeared ready to beat a Strategic retreat from their all or nothing stand for President civil rightrpKogfamft'' report was 'that they will frtj tbi TZ njjn euA a': 1 ui'mbbhhiws ayirifw "th' a a ru Igts gesWship dng for accept '1 hhurc to Restore Aid unds SKtlMaVmon ft" Guard Suspended STj PAUL Suspension of a guard at St Cloud Reforma tory on 'ground 'he smuggled whisky into' the institutions was announced today by Public Wel fare Commissioner Moths Hursh The guard is George Jansen 1027 Kilian Blvd St Cloud He has been employed at the reforma tory since 1949 ft 5 WASHINGTON (fl Two contro versial nominees of President El senhower were confirmed by the Senate Thursday night despite vigorous Democratic opposition By a 50 25 vote the Senate ap proved the reappointnfent of Jer ome Kuykendall to the ederal Power Commission Eisenhower is expected to rename him chairman of the agency A few hours later a 42 32 vote confirmed the mnninqtion of Don Paarlberg as assistant secretary of agriculture "Underlying the fight against these two: was oppo sition to Eisenhowers administra tion policies in the power 'and farm fields 1 ft Western Democratic senators accused Kuykendall who hails from Washington state of favor flnd it possible to get dong with mg private uuuuea iuiu natural gas producers Defending Kuykendall Republi can senators said his foes were trying to use him as a whipping boy because they have been un able to put across such federal power projects as the Hells Can yon Dam ft Kuykendall now returns to the federal payroll which he left June 22 when 'his previous term ex pired Thirty six Republicans and 14 Democrats joined in voting for his NOMINEES Continued on Page H) Austin Daily herald Knowland to ight House Cut WASHINGTON (fl Seni Know land (R Callf) held a last minute strategy session with President Elsenhower today and reported later they both hope to get back in the Senate a substantial part of the 1809658000 the House chopped out of foreign aid funs The President arid the Senate Republican leader held a' break fast conference at the White' ft House It followed by only a few" hours the House action on the mu tual security appropriation bill Beth Hopeful ft Knowland told reporters he doubt the Senate will be able to restore the entire sum the House knocked out but he said he and Eisenhower hiefii'the ate wUt restore a TftbstanUal part of the redactions' Knowland added he will 'have to further on a Npartl san among fellow senators before making any estimate of the amount by which the Senate might raise the figures ft? As finally passed by the House Thursday night theneasurt pro vide $2524760000 in new money 4 Elsenhower had' sought the full amount of a previously passed au thorization $3367000 000 ft' ft ft ft ar Belew Request The cut of more than809 million ft is a liet figure taking account some permanent authorizations needing no new law and some switching of Carryovers froih pre viou appropriations ZT' ft Member Associated Press A Ji Ike Looks to Senate 1958 I Accidents tw 586 lnurl 42 t' atnlltlflfl 1 Domogt $74009 $69200 ERCipoBrs of tiw Ul OKCOi Gt Drainerd Austin that TV A yt ey ft wuMh 4 JbOw ivtiVavterft fhfty trace 79 ft ft ft lift a afJr'fTjl xwPfcrt aASttiC SIH rima A lySgflMBHMMailS I jH joj Av 1 I IL ut iBaW Jr' itwku V4 Z3I' 1 fI GM ftU ftr 'tfl ft II 1 A ftl I I I vft ftft ft Waft ft'ft "ft vft ft cfiMft ft I i ftftfift' I 1 ft Wf A I ft 1 MK1 oBhNA Vo TT ft a BBftw 6 fdMI i BftH Owl tzSr It? eirJH I jg i fUv I jams rs BBarii XA SI raSHi 1 1 ft hmL Msb WraSM Si WK3 nTyTMWWifflWTllB ira LnMHanilW 4 I 86 A1L A Continued on ge ID ftf 6 A 1II ft ft Z' i ft 01?.

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